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“In the academic year 2021-2022, ernment introduced class XI board important class XII school-leaving
because of the prolonged schools’ exams with the objective of improv- exam. But with class XI boards be-
closure, students attended in-person ing the performance of TNBSE coming mandatory in 2018, schools
classes only sporadically. Unfortu- school students in competitive exams started teaching the class XI syllabus
nately many couldn’t attend online such as the National Eligibility-cum- seriously. For instance in my school
classes regularly and even among Entrance Test (NEET), since these since 2018, students’ class XI and XII
those who logged-in online, compre- exams give some weightage to the results have improved significantly,”
hension and learning outcomes are class XI syllabus. says Priyanka Nandhakumar,
not satisfactory. Moreover, though Though educators, parents and secretary at Sri Sankara Matricu-
government reduced the syllabus by students in the state are almost lation Higher Secondary School,
40 percent, many schools haven’t unanimous that the sui generis class Chennai.
completed this truncated syllabus. XI boards should be cancelled in Although informed education-
Therefore, given these exceptionally light of the huge disruption caused ists are almost unanimous that the
difficult circumstances, we want the by the Covid-19 pandemic, educa- class XI board exam is superfluous
class XI board exam for 2021-22 tionists caution against a precedent in these pandemic times, they warn
cancelled,” says James Sathya Raj, being set for its permanent cancel- that cancellation of this exam should
principal of the state board-affiliated lation. Many academics believe that be a one-time solution. Right now,
K-12 St. John’s Matriculation Higher the introduction in 2018 of class the state’s politicians and academy
Secondary School, Chennai. XI boards contributed towards need to focus their energies on devis-
In this connection, it’s pertinent improved learning outcomes of stu- ing intensive remedial education
to note that Tamil Nadu is the only dents in TNBSE-affiliated schools. programmes to make good children’s
state countrywide to mandate a class “Prior to introduction of class XI massive learning loss during India’s
XI board exam in addition to the board exams, many schools used to 82 weeks — a dubious world record
normative class X and XII boards. In skip the class XI syllabus to focus — education lockdown.
2017-18, the then AIADMK-led gov- on preparing students for the all- Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)

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